Abstract

Albums of photographs of famous personages in the arts. Some photographs are formal head and shoulder type, others are full length. Many are of actors portrayed in the roles they played in well known plays. One volume is an alphabetical index to the photograph albums.

Scope and content

Includes letters from performers commenting on reviews by Taubman; legislation concerning the arts; correspondence from colleagues; and a 600 page typescript of Taubman's THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN THEATER.

Scope and content

Records include essays and proposals in support of the festival; theater building plans; master site plan; programs and objectives; financial records, correspondence, memoranda, and minutes of festival committees; leases; and clippings. Correspondents include Walter Bruska, David C. Mandeville, Norbert H. Schickel, Jr., William Schmidt, Alan Schneider, John Summerskill, Walter Wiggins, and Joe Zeigler.

Scope and content By-laws and certificate of incorporation (1962); a statement of income and expense (1962); minutes of the organizational meeting (August 1963) of the ad hoc committee appointed for the purpose of evaluating Summer Ithaca as it then existed and making proposals for the future and the report of this committee, in which an Ithaca Festival of Classics is suggested and procedures are recommended for its establishment; correspondence, membership lists, fund drive information, rough notes, Summer...